Going to the Hydransz System

Posted on 27 Oct 2023 @ 1:47pm by Lieutenant Commander Alexanderia Cahill & Lieutenant Matthew Thompson & Lieutenant Serina "Reaper" Donovan & Lieutenant JG Faith Benson & Captain Mazal Falk & 2nd Lieutenant Cassandra Mathews
Edited on on 27 Oct 2023 @ 1:48pm

1,562 words; about a 8 minute read

Mission: S3 Episode 5: Diplomatic Incident/Hydaransz Again (Incidentals)
Location: Hydaransz System/Various
Timeline: MD: 15

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The away team returned to the Roosevelt and all fighters had recovered. Watched everybody push back on board Captain Cahill gave the order to resume the course to the Hydranz System. The Leto had come to aid and took All the refugees onto their ship to take them back to SB51 for further treatment.

The Roosevelt downloading course continued to the Hydransz system. The first thing that Roosevelt had to do was drop Captain Falk Off with his new room detail and also his other assigned transports and shuttles along with one squadron Of fighters.

Cahill called to Captain Falk.=/\= Captain Falk has all your Marine details to be ready. Assemble in the shuttle bay 1. We will be at the planned location to drop you off for your mission in 18 hours. =/\=

Mazal looked up from her gear bag and answered Cahill, =/\= Acknowleged=/\= her heart pounding but it wasn't due to fright, this was it.

Captain Cahill turned to Lt Thompson, “ Once we drop the Marines we go to do what we came here for. Destroy the Pirate carrier. We have been authorized right to fire first. And use any means to stop it. Any weapon's necessary. To destroy it.”

"So it's a bug hunt then. I suggest we lay mines to prevent them from warping out." Matt said.

"I agree, LT Thompson. I want to vaporize that ship and make it an example to others who may want to mess with the Federation. We have authorized Extreme Precedence on this mission and we will prevail." Replied Cahill.

"Of course Captain," Thompson replied.

Faith gave a little stretch as she looked over her console for the moment, listening to the conversation. "I think Cassandra is back from Medical now by the way."

"Excellent have her report to the Captain's ready room.
Where exactly are we going to drop off the marines Captain," Matt asked.

Cahill replied, "Falk has the coordinates for the drop-off."

=/\= Falk you need to send the drop-off coordinates to the helm officer. So we can drop you and your Marine Detail off.=/\=

Faith gave a glance down and tapped on the console a moment, =/\= Lieutenant Mathews, report to the Ready Room. =/\=

Cassandra's voice replied almost instantly. =/\= Aye, On my way.=/\=

=/\= Coordinates being sent.=/\= Falk replied.

Helm lay in the course to the coordinates sent by Mr. Falk.

=/\= Engineering put together some mines we can use to help with defences against the Pirate Carrier.=/\= replied Cahill

Cahill pressed to communications button on here chair, =/\=Captain Falk assemble your Marines in Shuttle Bay One. We will arrive at your drop-off location in less than an hour. Good Luck and good hunting on your mission.

Fighter Squadron One reports to Shuttle Bay One to go with Captain Falk and give her the close-in fighter support she needs during her mission.=/\=

=/\=Aye Commander=/\= was the return comment from Mazal. It was now, go time.

We arrive at the coordinates and drop out of warp. Cahill is ready to go hunting and hopes They are ready to disembark quickly.

Cahill replied, " Yellow Alert, long-range scans for any pirate ships in the area.

Get me a map up to show all large clusters of attacks by the pirates and have them ready for the view screen when the Marines with Captain Falk and all supporting craft have left the Roosevelt."

"Helm lay in a mine seeding course best possible to prevent ships from warping out of the system," Thompson ordered.

Mazal looked at those who were there with her, "It is now, go time, everyone is ready for the unexpected, adapt, make good judgments. And try to be careful" She gave a lopsided smile as she got some looks from some of the marines.

Falk looked at the go sign everyone was in place and off they went ready to do their job.

Suddenly a light went off in Cahill's head, "Lt Thompson, look at these 3 clusters of attacks near these 4 planets. Can any of them sustain life on them? The pirates need a base of operation to work from. Plus a place to hide all the stuff they have been stealing. And also would need a place to resupply their ship from."

"Not without either pressure domes or by being underground Captain," Matt replied.

Cahill replied, "They have to have a place to hide all the stuff they stole from the ships they attacked. And also a place to be able to do resupply from as well. I can feel they have a base hidden somewhere but cannot figure it out.

Any ideas where they may have it all hidden Lt Thompson? They have stolen too much stuff to keep it on the Pirate Carrier. And could not have sold it already to anyone yet.

"There are several large asteroids in the system, Captain, definitely large enough for a starship to enter. It is likely the pirates have built bases inside those asteroids and are attacking from various locations in the system," Matt said.

Matt looked up from his sensor hood.

"I don't think this is going to be as easy of a mop-up situation as we thought. These pirates are good tacticians and know they are outgunned. So if I were them, I would try to keep a low profile. and built extra defences just in case the federation or anyone else came snooping around," Matt added.

Cahill looked at the screen. "Helm lay in a course to where the 2 largest clusters of attacks have occurred. And engage. I suspect this is going to be the best hunting area we have right now.

What do you think Lt Thompson?

"Sir, I recommend that we should launch passive probes into the system, especially the asteroid belt. We might get a clue as to where they are launching from," Matt suggested. "Once we know which asteroids they are launching from we can send in the Marines to take them out, also they must be using communication relays to talk to each other, I think we would be spotted and they could launch a combined assault and could wipe us out before we could even get out a distress call," Matt said.

Pulling up an overlay of her last patrol route, Serina traces her flight route with the new helm orders and sees a good correlation for the jet wash from the pirate fighter to the planets...it matches. "On course for the 2 largest clusters of attacks occurred," Serina said.

A few hours later a call comes from Mazal. =/\=This is Captain Mazal Falk, we've taken back the bases we are ready for a pickup and want to get home. =/\=

A little bit later, Mazal sent out a call, this time she and her marines were safely onboard the Roosevelt. =/\= Roosevelt, we're onboard and from what I could see, you all did your job as well. I think that Colonel Somers is going to like how well you did on your part. =/\= there was a brief pause then Mazal added. =/\= Let's all go home now, well, those that are still with us.=/\= her words were tinged with a slight amount of grief. It hurt that she'd lost a few of her people.

Mazal's own words echoed in her mind, Let's all go home. She wanted to get back to the Tomcat, to see Ze, Hawksley and the others.

- Bridge -

With Starbase Omega now back in Starfleet hands and the Pirates once again effectively neutered, at least for the next few years, maybe a decade, the Rifles return to the Roosevelt where they are debriefed by Captain Falk, those bodies they could bring back now in the ship's morgue for the return journey to Starbase 51, with the personnel safely back aboard as was the two squadrons of fighters, the ships Commander decided on a cruise warp speed back to Starbase 51, the cruise speed was to allow the crew to catch their breaths and come to terms with what was experienced.

On the Bridge Commander Cahill, the acting Captain of the Roosevelt looked around and prepped to give the withdrawal order, the Pirate carrier had been destroyed with the Roosevelt sustaining some damage in the fight, but now the crew was ready for some downtime.

Commander Cahill sat back in her seat and gave the order to go to warp, straight for Starbase 51, the moment they had cleared the small asteroid field they were near, behind the badly damaged Uprated Nebula Class left behind a burning hulk that used to be a Pirate carrier, there had been a high price that had been paid by the crew of the Roosevelt.

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